Text 13] Pure Devotional Service: The Change in Heart
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kaivalya-panthā , or the only means of attainment of Godhead. This  kaivalya-panthā  begins from  śravaṇa , or hearing those topics that relate to the Personality of Godhead, and the natural consequence of hearing such  hari-kathā  is attainment of transcendental knowledge, which causes a detachment from all mundane topics, for which a devotee has no taste at all. For a devotee, all mundane activities, social and political, become unattractive, and in the mature state such a devotee becomes disinterested even in his own body, and what to speak of bodily relatives. In such a state of affairs one is not agitated by the waves of the material modes. There are different modes of material nature, and all mundane functions in which a common man is very much interested or takes part become unattractive for the devotee. This state of affairs is described herein as  pratinivṛtta-guṇṇormi , and it is possible by  ātma-prasāda , or complete self-satisfaction without any material connection. The first-class devotee of the Lord attains this stage by devotional service, but despite his loftiness, still, for the matter of the Lord's satisfaction, he may play the voluntary part of a preacher of the Lord's glory and dovetail all into devotional service, even mundane interest, just to give a chance to the neophytes to transform mundane interest into transcendental bliss. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has described this action of a pure devotee as “ nirbandhaḥ kṛṣṇa-sambandhe yuktam vairāgyam ucyate .” Even mundane activities dovetailed with service of the Lord are also calculated to be transcendental or approved  kaivalya  affairs.
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शौनक उवाच
इत्यभिन्याहृतं राजा निशम्य भरतर्षभः । किमन्यत्पृष्टवान् भूयो वैयासकिमृषिं कविम् ॥१३॥
śaunaka uvāca ity abhivyāhṛtam rājā niśamya bharatarṣabhaḥ kim anyat pṛṣṭavān bhūyo vaiyāsakim ṛṣim kavim
iti —thus;  abhivyāhṛtam —all that was spoken;  rājā —the king;  niśamya —by hearing;  bharata-ṛṣabhaḥ —Mahārāja Parīkṣit;  kim —what;  anyat —more;